Friday, April 6, 2012

Don’t lie down licking your wounds.

How
many have the persistence of Edison, Colonel Sanders, Henri Ford or the will of
Nelson Mandela, Napoleon, Hitler, Gandhi or Martin Luther King? How many can
overcome failures like Abraham Lincoln? How many of us can challenge
adversities like Helen Keller? How many will dare like Mark Ingles (a
double amputee who scaled Mount Everest)? How many of us have the IQ of Albert
Einstein? How many can sing like Jim Reeves or Michael Jackson? How many
can paint like Picasso or Michael Angelo?

How many has the bodily adornments of Elizabeth Taylor, or Brad Pitt? How
many can write like Shakespeare? The great ones seem to be more born than
made.

But
we need not be envious of those who are lucky (they did not ask for it). The world
is not bothered whether you were born poor or rich, with high or low IQ and
EQ,, in a home of love or strife. It wants you to win; it goes with the winners
only. No arguments please. No questions entertained. That is how the game of
life is played.

Who
wants to know your history? The only relevant question is: ‘have you
succeeded?’

The
world does not want to know where you plan to reach. What are you now? That is all what counts. If
you don't want to come up that is your problem. There might be some negatives
in your person ingrained or inherited from your parents and early childhood. But
you have enough to succeed- a normal brain. And by intense desire, sheer work
and persistence you can reach where you want to. You may not be able to become
like the truly great ones. Become great by doing the small things you do in a
great way. Never lie down licking your wounds. You will be left
alone to rot and die.